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Solar panels are installed on a home in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management, looks at a solar panel that will be installed on James Asbill's home in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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James Asbill, right, speaks with Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management, as solar panels are installed on Asbill's home in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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James Asbill, left, speaks with Will Etheridge, CEO of Southern Energy Management, as solar panels are installed on Asbill's home in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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Solar panels are installed on a home in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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FILE - Pumpjacks operate in the foreground while a wind turbines at the Buckeye Wind Energy wind farm rise in the distance Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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FILE - Theodore Tanczuk, left, and Brayan Santos, right, of solar installer YellowLite, put panels on the roof of a home in Lakewood, Ohio, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

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FILE - Wind turbines are visible along Route 176 as vehicles travel eastbound Feb. 24, 2025, in Andrews, Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

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Water drips from a melting chunk of ice that originated in the Rhone Glacier near Goms, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)